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Old February 8th, 2010, 10:54 AM
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Default eyecup for Olympus electronic view finder

After hours of shooting in our record snow, I kept wishing for an eyecup to block out the light that kept blacking out the viewfinder.

Has anyone come across a product that would attach to the EVF to accomplish this?

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Old February 8th, 2010, 07:22 PM
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Default GF1 needs one too!

Wish I could answer your question. The GF1 really needs one too. Any type of bright side or front light, and the eyelevel finder is useless. I'm not sure if the rubber pad on the Pen finder is removable, but if it is, you could measure where it fits onto and see if any of the generic eyecups would fit. The Lumix pad is not removable. I end up shooting with my left hand shading the top of the camera, not a good way to keep it steady.
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Default I is removable

Good idea. It can come off and looks like it is designed to take an accessory. Thanks for the reminder.

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Old February 9th, 2010, 08:06 AM
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Elliot, I've just posted an illustration of the E-P2 EVF with the rubber eyepiece removed here.

We just need a part to fit now!

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Old February 16th, 2010, 02:34 PM
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Elliot, I've just posted an illustration of the E-P2 EVF with the rubber eyepiece removed here.

We just need a part to fit now!

Cheers

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Hello Brian, I clicked on the item on your post and I did not get a drawing of what you had proposed....a rubber eyecup for the EVF.....is there such a thing?
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Old February 16th, 2010, 02:39 PM
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Hi Bill,

I posted this :


which shows the EVF with the original rubber eyepiece removed... what we need is a replacement rubber eyecup - as you say. I don't know whether there is such a thing out there?

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Old February 16th, 2010, 02:55 PM
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Thanks Brian, I guess I misunderstood what you said. Yes, I would love an eyecup similar to the E-1!!
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Pentax and Canon certainly did them for their SLRs - I may have a couple somewhere........I'll have a look - what the approx dia?
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Olympus did make a circular eyecup for the E-1 DSLR. Maybe this one will work? https://emporium.olympus.com/innards...sku=260213-410
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Old February 17th, 2010, 07:33 AM
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Olympus did make a circular eyecup for the E-1 DSLR. Maybe this one will work? https://emporium.olympus.com/innards...sku=260213-410
the eyecup for the E-1 would not work because of the way that it attaches to the camera unless Brian Mosley has/had one and can give it a try. I lost two of them 'cause they came off very easy!!
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